24 And (A)they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.

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21 So they went up and spied out the land (A)from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, (B)near Lebo-hamath. 22 They went up into (C)the Negeb and came to (D)Hebron. (E)Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the (F)descendants of Anak, were there. ((G)Hebron was built seven years before (H)Zoan in Egypt.) 23 And (I)they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs. 24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol,[a] because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.

Report of the Spies

25 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. 26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at (J)Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It (K)flows with milk and honey, (L)and this is its fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 13:24 Eshcol means cluster

Rahab Hides the Spies

And Joshua the son of Nun (A)sent[a] two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of (B)a prostitute whose name was (C)Rahab and lodged there. And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 2:1 Or had sent

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